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Putting the “FUN”ction Back into a Sensory Smart Classroom Courtney Miller COTA/L

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Putting the “FUN”ction Back into a Sensory Smart

ClassroomCourtney Miller COTA/L

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A Functional Classroom Starts with Self Regulation

What is Self Regulation?

• Having the ability to adjust, maintain and sustain energy level , emotions, behaviors and attention span during appropriate time, place and settings. ( Naptime, lunch, circle time, outside play.)

Three components to Self Regulation

• Sensory Regulation • Emotional Regulation • Cognitive Regulation

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Sensory RegulationThe ability for the brain to respond to the environmental sensory stimuli and the internal stimuli present and continue to maintain appropriate level of arousal.

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Sensory SystemThe Sensory System is made up of a total of eight different systems. 1. Proprioception 2. Vestibular 3. Tactile 4. Visual 5. Auditory (sound) 6. Olfactory (smell) 7. Gustatory (taste) 8. Interoception

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Proprioceptive System• Proprioceptive sense refers to the sensory input and feedback

that tells us about movement and body position. • It's "receptors" are located within our muscles, joints,

ligaments, tendons, and connective tissues. • It tells us where are body is in space and how much force is

needed to carry out an activity. • Proprioceptive System is also responsible for motor planning. • Motor planning the ability to coordinate, plan and carry out an

activity.

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Vestibular System• The vestibular system detects movement and gravitational pull,

and it provides information regarding the position of our head in space and acceleration and deceleration of movement. • It is the first sensory system to fully develop in utero and is

located in the inner ear. The vestibular system has strong neurological connections in the brain and is a major organizer of varied sensory input. • This system is considered the most influential sensory system and

has tremendous impact on one’s ability to function daily. Directly or indirectly, the vestibular system influences nearly everything we do.

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Tactile System• The tactile system, or sense of touch, refers to the information

we receive though the receptors in our skin. • It alerts us to pain and temperature and helps us discriminate

the properties of things we come in contact with, i.e. texture, shape, size, and weight. • From very early on in development this sense plays a crucial

role in helping us gain awareness of our own bodies and understand everything we come in contact with.

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Visual System• Responsible for seeing • Types of visual information include: color, shape, orientation,

and motion.

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Auditory System• The auditory system is responsible for hearing. • Specific sound frequencies • Process changes in sound frequency or amplitude, combinations

of sound frequencies. • Auditory Processing is completely different than the Auditory

System. • Auditory System is simply hearing and Auditory Processing is

the brain processing the information heard in order to carry out activities, answer questions, follow directions and so on.

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Olfactory System • Smell • Discriminating among odors • Enhancing detection of odors • Filtering out many background odors • Allowing higher brain areas related to arousal and attention to

modify the detection and/or the discrimination of odors.

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Gustatory System• Taste • It allows us to discriminate between safe and harmful foods.

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Interoception• Interoception refers to sensations related to the physiological/

physical condition of the body. • Interoceptors are internal sensors that provide a sense of what

our internal organs are feeling. • Examples: Hunger, thirst, sleepy, the need to urinate or have a

bowel movement. Pain or illness.

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Sensory Retreat• Every classroom should have a sensory retreat or calm down

corner. • Everyone needs a break sometimes even preschoolers

especially the kids who stay in Tigger mode (high arousal). • Tent • Bean Bag • Weighted lap pad, blanket or stuffed animal • Fidget • Calm down bottle • Favorite snack

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Emotional Regulation• Allows children to respond to social rules with a range of

emotions through initiating, inhibiting, or modulating their behavior in a given situation to ensure social acceptance. • Being able to share • Engaging in turn taking

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Emotional Regulation

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Cognitive Regulation• The ability to problem solve during task and daily activities in

order to demonstrate attention and ability to follow through with task and activity. • All three components of Self Regulation, Sensory, Emotional

and Cognitive are important but Sensory Regulation is a crucial aspect in which leads to the ability to achieve and maintain emotional and cognitive regulation therefore leading to overall Self Regulation.

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